Cal students take it off to protest sweatshop labor
A group of University of California students say they won't wear university logo apparel made in overseas sweatshops - and Tuesday they proved it. A handful of students stripped for a protest and rally at UC Berkeley to call on UC administrators to adopt a policy that would ensure that logo apparel is produced in factories that respect workers' rights. "The naked truth is that our Cal apparel is still made in sweatshops, but we have the power to create an alternative model for the global garment industry that rewards rather than punishes good factories," UC Berkeley senior Nina Rizzo said in a statement.
United Students Against Sweatshops protested in various stages of undress in front of California Hall at UC Berkeley and asked that the university prohibit apparel from being made in sweatshops. The students, organized under a national group called United Students Against Sweatshops, have held previous protests at UC Berkeley - including one other in the buff - and rallied in front of the UC Office of the President in Oakland. Eighteen students affiliated with Tuesday's protest were cited for trespassing after they staged a sit-in in California Hall, which houses administrative offices, including the chancellor's office.
See, Andrew? Liberal chicks are alot of fun!
posted by John Good @ 6:43 PM
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Yeah, they're also a lot of idiots.
But, I'll hold my tongue based on gratuitous nudity. I'm all about that!
I will say, that there is a group of girls WAAAAAAAY more annoying than cause-head liberal circus-sideshow goofballs: mouthy fundamentalist Christian women ALWAYS grind my ass. There are so many topics in the world to discuss...stop trying to sell me Jesus...PLEASE!!!...let's talk about gardening...or migratory waterfowl...or maybe we can laugh at Craig for a while...but for fscks sake, stop pimping the son of man like a two-bit hooker. Just because your head is chock-full-o' Christian bric-a-brac doesn't mean you're smart enough to understand or discuss it!
Sorry...I lost my focus there for a minute.
Andy,
Everybody who ever knew my mother would descibe her as deeply religious. She always taught me that "true" Christians don't force their views on people, or run around yelling "Praise the Lord!" over every thing that happens in their lives.
In other words, I agree. SHit. Here we are again. lol
Indeed, right back to square one...or was it square two?
Ah, who gives a shit...next round's on me.
Just FYI, on swinging the other way, I know a Dem or two that can't stomach Evan Bayh. He's not liberal enough for their tastes. I think we need more centrist people like Evan; that's the problem, we're too polarized. When that happens, all of the whack jobs get a bigger bite of things than they deserve, and that goes for the ultra-sides of left and right. It's just a big assed teeter-totter between the two poles.
The middle ground is the place to be if any progress is to be made. The extremists need to bend or be excluded. Again, just my humble opinion. Thoughts?
Fundamentalism (or extremism if you wish) has its place, it's just not here. Not in America, it hurts everyone including the extremists...even if they can't see it. Short-sightedness is the root cause of extremism in my opinion. Makes for some backwards assholes.
Well it was California. Most people don't wear that much clothes anyway. On Bayh - I don't know much about him, except that he was among the first of Feingold's fellow Dems to speak out against the censure. That did get him quite a few e-mails and phonecalls. I called.
Peace.
Bayh surprised me on that one. Most likely has to do with posturing for his '08 run, and trying to remain dead center as much as possible. Still doesn't mean I agreed with him this time tho. . .
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